A man arrested in connection with a Jupiter Island home invasion was being questioned about a Lauderhill homicide, authorities announced Wednesday.

Markell Brown, 23, was in a car with his girlfriend when he was arrested Wednesday at Southwest Fourth Avenue and Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said in a live-streaming press conference posted on Facebook.

“It was very important that we get him off the street,” Snyder said. “We were relieved. We’ve been tracking him and following leads for days now.”

Brown, whose rap sheet includes 17 felony arrests, was taken to the Lauderhill Police Department for questioning about the homicide, Snyder said. No details about that killing were immediately available.

The home invasion and the homicide are not connected, Snyder said.

Brown was released from state prison in June 2017 after serving two years of a three-year sentence for aggravated assault and delivery of a controlled substance, records show.

Brown is expected to make his first appearance on the home-invasion charge before a Broward County judge Thursday morning.

Martin County Sheriff's Office / courtesy

A home-surveillance system captured this image of robbers who broke into a Jupiter Island home on Jan. 20.

A home-surveillance system captured this image of robbers who broke into a Jupiter Island home on Jan. 20. (Martin County Sheriff's Office / courtesy)

That crime was committed Jan. 20. An armed man and an accomplice entered a Jupiter Island couple’s home through an unlocked door, awoke the husband and wife and forced them to lie on the floor while they ransacked the house, Snyder said.

“A locked door would have prevented this home-invasion robbery,” Snyder said. “A locked door with an alarm would have absolutely prevented it.”

The home invasion, the first crime of its type on Jupiter Island in many decades, sent shockwaves across the island, police said at the press conference.

The second suspect is still at large, Snyder said, but authorities are pursuing leads.